Performance Solutions Partner II

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. Intro: Pinterest’s Service Configuration & Coordination team builds the platforms, APIs, and tooling that make dynamic configuration and service coordination safe, scalable, and reliable for every service across regions and clouds, serving as the central hub for cross-functional alignment and system orchestration. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (IC17), you’ll own the end-to-end technical strategy and long-term vision for our configuration and coordination infrastructure. You’ll define the future of these mission-critical systems, partnering closely with Traffic, Compute, Observability, and Cloud Architecture teams to deliver robust, high-performance solutions at scale. What you’ll do:  * Orchestrate the long-term technical vision for configuration ecosystems to ensure feature flags, ML settings, and experiments utilize unified paved paths. You will champion operational safety through standardized validation, staged rollout mechanisms, and robust governance frameworks across the organization. * Spearhead the transition from legacy substrates by migrating mission-critical use cases to modern platforms. You will establish scalable onboarding patterns that enable engineering teams to evolve their configuration lifecycle with precision and minimal friction. * Architect the next generation of control plane interfaces and diagnostic surfaces. By engineering high-performance, read-optimized APIs, you will empower human operators and automated assistants to seamlessly manage and reason about complex production states. * Direct the integration of coordination stacks within the broader deployment and multi-region landscape. Your leadership will refine service discovery and substrate architecture to accelerate regional expansion while eliminating bespoke toil and architectural circularity. * Leverage AI to catalyze infrastructure design and analytical phases, utilizing assistant-enabled workflows to synthesize partner requirements into executable roadmaps. You will maintain absolute accountability through rigorous data validation, metric-driven reviews, and comprehensive peer verification.   What we’re looking for: * Decade-plus mastery in high-scale infrastructure and distributed environments, with a track record of architecting or managing business-critical backend substrates in production settings. * Proven expertise in orchestrating cross-functional technical strategies for control-plane systems (e.g., experiments, feature flags, or ML config), unifying disparate teams around standardized and safe rollout methodologies. * Advanced proficiency in distributed coordination and substrate design—capable of navigating complex consistency models, failure domains, and the engineering of resilient, high-leverage abstractions. * Experience aligning configuration surfaces with deployment pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., IaC or CI/CD), with a focus on mitigating architectural circularity and reducing service owner toil. * History of elevating senior engineering talent while steering parallel workstreams, synthesizing loosely coupled initiatives into a unified technical vision and executable roadmap. * Ability to catalyze execution via AI-enabled workflows (e.g., design synthesis, analytical phases, or documentation) while ensuring rigorous accountability through data validation, peer review, and metric-driven verification. * Extreme ownership and professional integrity: dedicated to safeguarding data, maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight for automated outputs, and taking full responsibility for long-term architectural outcomes. * Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.   Relocation Statement:  * This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.   In-Office Requirement Statement:  * We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role. * This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. #LI-REMOTE #LI-KBF At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise. Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here. US based applicants only $208,592—$429,454 USD Our Commitment to Inclusion: Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. THE COMMUNITY YOU WILL JOIN You will join the Workflow Orchestration team within Airbnb's Data Infrastructure org. This team owns the orchestration layer that coordinates, executes, and monitors complex data workflows across batch and streaming domains. Our mission is to empower data engineers, ML teams, analytics, and operational applications with robust, scalable, and observable orchestration platforms and tooling — ensuring that critical business workflows run reliably, efficiently, and transparently. THE DIFFERENCE YOU WILL MAKE As an Engineering Manager on the Workflow Orchestration team, you will: * Lead and grow a high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and operating distributed orchestration infrastructure that runs tens of thousands of data workflows daily. * Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for orchestration, aligning to Airbnb's broader Data Infrastructure and Analytics platform strategy. * Drive adoption of best-in-class workflow paradigms and tooling across data engineering, reliability, and ML teams, ensuring consistency, performance, and operational excellence. * Partner closely with cross-functional teams in Data Platform, Compute, Storage, Analytics, and ML Infrastructure to integrate orchestration capabilities into wider data ecosystems. * Coach and mentor engineers, enabling strong technical judgment, clarity of thinking, and ownership across the team. A TYPICAL DAY * Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to shape multi-year strategies for workflow orchestration and execution platforms. * Stay connected to architectural decisions, review designs, and help unblock technical challenges. * Partner with product and engineering leaders across Data Infrastructure to prioritize investments that balance reliability, developer experience, and cost. * Ensure the team practices strong delivery discipline, operational monitoring, and on-call readiness for critical orchestration infrastructure. * Stay up to date with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends in data engineering and software development. * Recruit top engineering talent and grow the careers of engineers, with a focus on inclusive leadership and psychological safety. WHAT YOU'LL NEED * 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and scaling distributed systems teams. * Strong technical background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration engines, scheduling systems, or data infrastructure tooling. * Previous working experience in large scale orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Kubeflow, Maestro or similar platforms, and understanding of challenges around scaling, observability, and multi-tenancy. * Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices. * A track record of partnering across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality infrastructure at scale. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in synthesizing complex technical concepts for broad audiences. YOUR LOCATION This position is US Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION & BELONGING Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation, please contact reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.   Pay Range $212,000—$265,000 USD